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Summary

One of a pair of huts with associated enclosures south-east of Saddle Bridge, this hut is larger and better preserved than MDV6498. Internal diameter 8.0 metres, double faced wall built of coursed horizontally laid boulders. In excellent condition. Joined by two lengths of curved wall to parallel reave system. 1977 survey recorded the internal diameter as 8.0 metres, the hut has a double faced wall built of coursed horizontally laid boulders. In excellent condition. Joined by two lengths of curved wall to parallel reave system.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020487: Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE56
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443019
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/104/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 345B

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX67SE56 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV139700.

(27/04/1950) Hut circle B (SX 6663 7183). A large well preserved hut circle, 9.0 metres in diameter, walling consists of large stones and turf 1.5 metres wide by 0.9 metres high. Well defined entrance to south-east.
(12/07/1977) SX 66587184. Three hut circles on a moderate well drained, north west facing slope at 305m above OD, just above the river cliff of the O Brook. The huts are either built within, or integrated with the parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 92).
c. SX 66637183 This type III hut circle, internal diameter 8m, has a double faced wall, 2m wide, built of coursed, horizontally laid large boulders and is in excellent condition. It is cut back into the slope and has a south east facing entrance. It is joined by two lengths of curving wall to the parallel reave system. See photograph. 1:10 000 survey revised on PFD/AO Model Enlargement Survey
at 1:1000 Scale on 495.

National Monument Record, 1977, NMR SX6672/3, 166-170 (Aerial Photograph). SDV144287.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Hut circle is visible on the 1977 aerial photograph as attached hut circle.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 187, Map 60.19 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Butler's hut 2 (7.8 metres) is the larger of the two huts, D-shaped with an unusably straight lower wall. It is in much better condition and opens into its own paddock on the opposite side of the reave.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1996, Holne Moor Survey (Report - Survey). SDV154079.

(08/12/1996) As described in 1977.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Hut is clearly visible on the aerial photography.

Cunis, E, 2021, Condition of hut circles east of Saddle Bridge (Photograph). SDV364362.

(13/04/2021) SX66634 71835 Photograph of huts taken looking north-west. Condition of huts noted as being fairly overgrown.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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